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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near King Cove in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.3912S, -161.5981WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska (54 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 19/05/25 / 2025-05-19 15:06:35 / May 19, 2025 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000q05k, ak0256e4o3k3. Id of event: us7000q05k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.016 km (23 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:06:35 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -161.5981 West, latitude 54.3912 North, depth = 37.016 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 87 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.5981° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.016 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-19 15:06:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-19 16:16:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.076 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 299 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000q05k Id of event.
Event Code 7000q05k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q05k,ak0256e4o3k3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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